In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
“ I was father to the land. I saved my people. I was... King. "By... earth," he said, more a movement of… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude… — Clarence Budington Kelland Copy Share Image
My father is an Indian Ugandan. That's why I was born in Uganda. I've always been proud to be Ugandan, and I've… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My story is similar to every ordinary Indian boy's tale. My father wanted me to become an engineer or a professional but… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning.… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
“And in the cool evenings after his mother had gone to bed, he learned to play a friendly game of cards, bluffing… — Victoria Wilcox Copy Share Image
I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans;… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
(To Lucrezia Borgia) Do people say that I am both your father and your lover? Let the world, that heap of vermin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them.… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in… — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
'A Daddy is not defined as the man, that conceived the child,but rather the man that extends his hands and time to… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
God the Father was there before man invented time, then God the Father created Jesus, God the Son, the Spiritual Technology Power… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all --… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
